A teenager has been cleared of shouting sectarian abuse at Rangers striker Kyle Lafferty and throwing a brick at his car.

Reice Harrison was found not guilty of both charges after it emerged that Mr Lafferty's girlfriend, former Miss Scotland Nicola Mimnagh, had failed to pick him out at an identification parade held last week.

She arrived at Paisley Sheriff Court on Wednesday prepared to give evidence about what happened at Morrisons car park in Johnstone on November 21, last year.

But depute fiscal Margaret McCallum told Sheriff Derek Livingstone: "An identification parade at the behest of the defence was carried out. As a result of that the Crown are no longer prosecuting in relation to the charges of assault and sectarian breach of the peace."

Mr Lafferty, 24, told the trial last month he was called "an orange c***" and "p****" by 16-year-old Mr Harrison.

The Rangers forward told the court the rear window of his Jeep, which he had just bought two weeks earlier, was smashed by a brick as his pregnant girlfriend, who has since given birth to a baby boy, sat inside.

Sheriff Livingstone convicted Mr Harrison of a breach of bail conditions, but admonished him as he had spent 35 days on remand.